ultimoo

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by ultimoo 9y ago
Not justifying the removal of the headphone jack by any means, but bluetooth earphones (good ones) are amazing when it comes to running, working out, skiing, biking etc. when you don't want to deal with wires running through your cloth
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by ultimoo 9y ago
Amazon too, especially with the Alexa ecosystem.
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by ultimoo 9y ago
> Many of the things the human body was optimized for aren't really that important in the modern world. E.g. I'd take a body (or brain...) that was 10 times stronger but required ten times more energy. Energy is abundant now. E
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by ultimoo 9y ago
TL;DR: The investments are moving from the city proper to South Bay over the last 2-3 years. Mostly a good writeup backed by sufficient data points. If I may anecdotally share my observations, of the handful of people that I personally know
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by ultimoo 9y ago
I have had to do this a couple of times in the past due to a broken screen and a broken battery. The hardest part was Google Authenticator wasn't automatically restored with all my accounts, and logging into each service to set it up a
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by ultimoo 9y ago
I am guessing weather has something to do with this. Do other places in the center of the country have a similar all year mild weather as So Cal or Orlando? Overall this a great idea though, families could fly in to an airport close to the
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by ultimoo 9y ago
It'll be very interesting if you could do a mini-AMA! Not sure whether hn is right forum for that though.
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by ultimoo 9y ago
Not OP, but I suppose one could set up SMS based 2FA on a cell phone that is not a smart phone for most major services out there.
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by ultimoo 9y ago
I'd expect the driver software to let the driver rate the passenger before being shown the tip amount. Often times, I'll tip lyft drivers the next day or even the next time I open the lyft app.
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by ultimoo 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference in the UK style keyboard vs the US style keyboard? Is the 4/$ replaced with the 4/£ key? Wouldn't this be problematic when programming (for example variable substitution on the s
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by ultimoo 9y ago
As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Interesting read on "Dealer" meetings. From The Myths of Creativity By David Burkus >> In the 1970s at Xerox PARC, regularly scheduled arguments were routine. The company that gave birth to the personal computer staged forma
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by ultimoo 10y ago
https://twitter.com/ALT_uscis/status/850100381560578052 "well now on CNN! and we gained 17000 followers in less than 30 minutes. Thank you CBP/Trump" I just learnt about the Streisand Effect this af
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Having never tried any hard drugs or the mentioned concoctions, pardon my basic question -- what effects does consuming opium have? Is it like consuming modern day heroin? Does it imitate what people feel after smoking pot? Just trying to u
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Homeshare could be owning the condos themselves.
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Not sure whether I know of countries that require no Visa. As far as most open countries go -- Thailand, Singapore, Hongkong come to mind.
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by ultimoo 10y ago
What went wrong with the Apigee IPO for the employees? I know that they got acquired by Google but I'm not familiar with anything else.
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Good point. I wonder how effective it would be to drop calorie intake past the age of say 60 years. That way one gets to enjoy a regular calorie intake for most of their life and then sacrifice it in favor of longevity. Hopefully more resea
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by ultimoo 10y ago
I liked the part about Chime calling you at the scheduled start of meeting. So simple yet I had never thought of this since my org uses WebEx. With a smart phone that would pretty well via a push notification or an actual call, but not sure
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by ultimoo 10y ago
This really confused me at first, but upon looking at the data sheet from Apple [1] it's much more clear -- the units are in thousands and the revenue is in millions. So for this quarter 5,374,000 Macs were sold generating a revenue of
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by ultimoo 10y ago
I've only heard good things about rsync.net (though never had the chance to use it). Thanks. Is there a blog posting or use case description for using it as a personal photos and videos backup solution? Something along the lines of bes
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Splunk | Full-time | ONSITE | San Francisco My team is looking for an engineer who is an expert with "big data technologies". An ideal candidate would not only be familiar with technologies like Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, etc. but also
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Can someone shed light on why companies do a stock repurchase?
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Fitbit launches Charge 2 activity tracker(fitbit.com)
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Identity theft attempt follows stealing iPhone(hackernoon.com)
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The Steak Clause(medium.com)
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Agreed. MVP would have definitely been the way to go. However, getting anywhere from San Jose to the rest of the Bay Area is pretty slow. Yes, a considerable number of jobs do exist in the San Jose & Santa Clara valley area, but commuti
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by ultimoo 10y ago
Agreed. I recently got a Pioneer 4100 NEX aftermarket CarPlay device fitted in my 2010 Camry just for this. Unfortunately, CarPlay itself has many usability issues that have not allowed me to use the system the way I had imagined.
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by ultimoo 11y ago
I think so too! I have done a fair bit of Ruby a few years ago but I'm new to python CRUD apps and trying to improve my knowledge here. Is defining all models in the same file[1] conventional in python apps? Rails used to have separate
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by ultimoo 11y ago
Reading another post[1], it appears that the drone will reject maneuvers that could crash it. "During the flight, the autopilot prevents any false maneuver which could bring the flying wing down." [1] http://www.theve

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